Value of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of malignant cervical lymph nodes

The cervical lymph nodes are relevant due to the diversity of clinical entities. The use of immunohistochemistry is a real method to elucidate the diagnosis of adenopathy, both primary and metastatic neoplasms. OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of cervical lymph...

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Autores principales: de Natale Caly, Décio, Rapoport, Abrão, Curioni, Otávio Alberto, Dedivitis, Rogério Aparecido, Cernea, Claudio Roberto, Brandão, Lenine Garcia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9442414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24141680
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1808-8694.20130112
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Sumario:The cervical lymph nodes are relevant due to the diversity of clinical entities. The use of immunohistochemistry is a real method to elucidate the diagnosis of adenopathy, both primary and metastatic neoplasms. OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of cervical lymph nodes malignancies. METHOD: Retrospective study of the database histopathological specimens from 2009 to 2011. RESULTS: Out of 32 biopsies of cervical lymph nodes, in 16 (50%) the immunohistochemistry was employed, being 68.75% (11) in hematological neoplasms and 31.25% (5) in carcinomas. It was used in all cases of lymphoma. CONCLUSION: The immunohistochemistry was used in 50% of the biopsies of lymph nodes under suspicion of malignancy, being 31.25% in epithelial lesions and 68.75% in lymphoproliferative lesions.

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